My times : a memoir of dissent
"My Times: A Memoir of Dissent is the first book to take a hard look at the way news is made at "the newspaper of record." John L. Hess worked at The New York Times for twenty-four years, as editor, rewrite man, foreign correspondent, feature writer, investigative reporter, and food critic. Here he attacks the myth of objective journalism and criticizes the Times for propagating it. Hess gives example after example of news not covered, miscovered, and covered up by reporters and editors working under pressure to produce noncontroversial copy. The Times, Hess writes, is a battlefield, where, indeed, the public interest is locked in daily struggle with the interests of the powerful."--BOOK JACKET
Print Book, English, ©2003
Seven Stories Press 1st ed View all formats and editions
Seven Stories Press, New York, ©2003
Autobiographies
271 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
9781583226049, 9781583226223, 1583226044, 1583226222
52720984
1. Learning a trade
2. Tyranny of the clerks
3. Fin-biz
4. Meet the family
5. Clerks to the world
6. Paris edition
7. Tragic victory
8. How we blew My-lai
9. Aftermath
10. Cyrus
11. Sin City
12. Kerfuffle at the Met
13. Dining on the Times
14. Setting a prairie fire
15. Exit
16. Death Watch
Includes index